Unlock your story - Empowered Storytelling Workshop

Workshop for FLINTA*

Dates: August 31 – September 4, 2026; 10:00 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. daily (5 units per day, including a 30-minute break)
Location: Turmstraße 75, VHS Berlin Mitte
Fee: 76 €
Reduced fee: 41 € (Fee reductions available in accordance with the implementing regulations of the Berlin Adult Education Centers)
Registration/Application: Applications may be submitted until August 24, 2026 (to: [e-mail] ; further information below). Applications are processed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Gouri Sharma

Workshop (course language: English)

Do you find it difficult connecting with your authentic storytelling voice? Are you keen to express yourself in a more empowered way? And are you curious to explore and work with your inner creative blocks?

Whether you want to turn your long-standing idea into a TV pitch, write a powerful personal profile for socials, or deliver a strong performance, this workshop will help you connect more with your authentic storytelling voice.

You will be invited to go through a series of creative writing exercises, embodiment practices and group work to help you:

• Connect more with your authentic storytelling voice
• Recognise and work through creative blocks and inner critics
• Work and write with and from the body
• Align more with your values and gain deeper clarity on your vision

In this week-long workshop, participants will be required to bring something that they are working on ie a performance piece, pitch or personal profile, which will be worked on as the week goes on.

Gouri Sharma is an independent journalist, writer and producer with nearly two decades of experience covering current affairs, race, gender, media, and diasporic life.
She has worked across print and broadcast journalism, consultancy writing, editorial and communications, with a career spanning the UK, India, Qatar, and Germany. With roots in London, Punjab, Nairobi and now Berlin, her writing centres on the stories and histories that are often unseen and unheard.

• Day 1 – Intros and icebreakers

  • Facilitator and participant intros and desired learnings
  • Course overview
  • Participants to read out their individual pieces and group discussion about individual challenges.

  Day 2 – Knowing your ‘self’, values and senses

  • Incorporating writing exercises from writer Margaret Atwood
  • Writing from the senses exercises
  • Values-based writing exercises

  Day 3 – Blocks, bodies and boundaries

  • Incorporating Liz Gilbert’s exercises to address fears and embracing techniques from the well-known creative bible, The Artist’s Way
  • Embodiment and movement practices to help with the writing process
  Day 4 – Audre Lorde – power play

  • Working with Audre Lorde’s texts, in particular her seminal ‘Uses of the Erotic’, to develop writing practises and encourage deeper analysis of power, both internal and external.

  Day 5 – Visions and reflections

  • Writing exercises that will encourage positive reframing and future self-visions
  • Plus, recap, reflections and review of their pieces at the beginning and end of the week

  Please note:
  This course is open exclusively to FLINTA*- participants.
  Weather permitting, classes may also take place outdoors.

Registration

Registration is possible upon submission of a brief, informal application. Please email us explaining why you wish to participate in this course and what prior connection you have to the subject matter. The course is designed for 5 to 10 participants. Admission is granted on a “first come, first served” basis. Applications may be submitted until August 24, 2026 (to: [e-mail] ; receipt will be confirmed via email).
This course is open exclusively to FLINTA*- participants.

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